Buku setebal 186 halaman dengan bahasa yang mudah dipahami, setelah dibaca ternyata isinya bukan mengenai "kejahatan hiu" sebagaimana di visualisasikan dalam film "JAWS" - yang diambil dari buku karangan beliau juga - tapi lebih cenderung meluruskan pandangan negatif tentang hewan ini Mungkin semacam permintaan maaf pak Benchley kepada kaum Hiu akibat ephoria negatif tentang hiu dari film JAWS.
Dalam buku ini, Benchley banyak menulis tentang ilustrasi, contoh kasus, pengalaman pribadi beliau termasuk selama menyelam dan perjumpaannya dengan berbagai jenis hiu , ajakan untuk melihat kehidupan hiu dari sisi yang berbeda serta binatang laut lainnya. Termasuk cerita menarik tentang sebuah desa nelayan yang menggambarkan ekosistem laut dan bagaimana hubungannya dengan manusia yang hidupnya bergantung kepada kehidupan laut di sekitarnya.
Selebihnya dari buku ini yang paling menarik bagi saya adalah pelajaran bagaimana perilaku kita seharusnya di dalam laut dan segala resikonya. Laut dan kehidupan di dalamnya adalah misteri besar yang masih banyak belum terungkap manusia...dalam kapasitas manusia, begitu saya berenang atau menyelam ke dalam laut, saya adalah tamu...saya adalah mahluk asing yang datang kerumah orang lain untuk berkunjung dan bertamu, melihat-lihat keindahan rumah mereka.... We should respect to each other to share the ocean..... we're living equally in this world, aren't we.
Berikut adalah review yang diambil dari situs http://www.peterbenchley.com/newbook.htm
Shark Trouble
by Peter Benchley
Master storyteller Peter Benchley combines high adventure with practical information in Shark Trouble, a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea. The bestselling author of Jaws, The Deep, and other works draws on more than three decades of experience to share information about sharks and other marine animals.
"Shark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous amount of media coverage" Benchley writes, "partly because they occur so rarely, but mostly, I think, because people are, and always have been, simultaneously intrigued and terrified by sharks. Sharks come from a wing of the dark castle where our nightmares live - deep water beyond our sight and understanding - and so they stimulate our fears and fantasies and imaginations."
Benchley describes the many types of sharks (including the ones that pose a genuine threat to man), what is and isn't known about shark behavior, the odds against an attack and how to reduce them even further - all reinforced with the lessons he has learned, the mistakes he has made, and the personal perils he has encountered while producing television documentaries, bestselling novels, and articles about the sea and its inhabitants. He tells how to swim safely in the ocean, how to read the tides and currents, what behavior to avoid, and how to survive when danger suddenly strikes. He discusses how to tell children about sharks and the sea and how to develop, in young and old alike, a healthy respect for the ocean.
As Benchley says, "The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.
"No longer. Not after you've read Shark Trouble.
*PS : Thanks to my ex buddy HWBY who introduced me to this interesting book*
